[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

*> As a cult, Trump MAGA is not the most extreme. I think the Rajneesh
> followers were even more over the top.*


*Yeah but nobody ever gave Rajneesh the keys to a missile carrying nuclear
submarine like they did for the MAGA leader. Both political parties always
had a lunatic fringe, but this is the first time that the lunatic fringe
gained control not just of the Presidency but also the House and the Senate
and the Supreme Court. *

*John K Clark*







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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> *> why does your party lose to an unpopular candidat**e?*
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>> *Why do cult preachers who predict an exact date for the end of the world
>> fail to lose any popularity with their slavish acolytes even after that
>> date recedes into the past  and their prediction clearly failed because the
>> world still continues? Nobody knows.  I do have strong evidence that
>> millions of people continue to find Donald J Trump to be charming and
>> charismatic even after he has told literally TENS OF THOUSANDS of lies. For
>> some reason his apparent charm and charisma never worked a damn with me, I
>> find him to be** so stupid and pompous he would be comical if he hadn't
>> introduced so much new misery to the world which already had quite enough.
>> I freely admit I can't explain how doomsday cult leaders or the current
>> leader of the Republican Party could possibly exist, but somehow both can. *
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>> *I also know that during the height of the Covid pandemic the difference
>> between a doomsday cult and the modern Republican Party started to get very
>> blurry.  *
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>> *John K Clark*
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